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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil

Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...

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DO LOWER EXPECTED WAGE BENEFITS EXPLAIN ETHNIC GAPS IN JOB- RELATED TRAINING? EVIDENCE FROM NEW ZEALAND

Gibson, John - EconWPA - 2003

Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...

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Playing on profits cycle?

Baryshevsky, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003

, year-to-year change of earnings multiple P/E tends to anticorrelate with profits cycle. It shows sluggishness of market … trend. It is presence of phase of earnings accumulation. Such accumulation is possible only during periods of significant … outstripping of earnings growth over the market growth. Now there is no phase of earnings accumulation, because market returned to …

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Racial Discrimination in the Brazilian Labour Market: Wage, Employment and Segregation Effects

Jean-Louis, Arcand; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005

The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very dark color is a handicap to social advancement. Nevertheless, very few empirical economic studies have attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination...

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Does firm size really affect earnings?

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony - EconWPA - 2004

firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect …

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User's Guide to an Early Warning System for Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Latin American Countries

Herrera, Santiago; Garcia, Conrado A. - EconWPA - 2000

The object of this paper is to develop an Early Warning System of Macro Vulnerability for several Latin American countries based on previous work of Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1997) and Kaminsky (1998). We build a composite leading indicator that signals macroeconomic vulnerability, showing...

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THE ROLE OF GLOBAL RISK AVERSION IN EXPLAINING LATIN AMERICAN SOVEREIGN SPREADS

HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; ORTIZ, ALVARO - EconWPA - 2005

This paper assesses empirically whether global risk aversion (GRA) and some if its determinants (US economic growth and the US long term interest rates) explain developments in Latin American sovereign spreads. We find that GRA is significant and positively related to Latin American sovereign...

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La metodología de la investigación en la Economía Aplicada; The Research Methodology in Applied Economics

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2005

Sumario La ciencia económica es un tipo específico de conocimiento dentro de las ciencias sociales. Para lograr realizar un estudio del conocimiento económico de tal naturaleza, o sea, para hacer ciencia económica, es preciso seguir determinados procedimientos que nos permitan realizar un...

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Any Link Between Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Jácome, Luis; Vázquez, Francisco - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews central bank legislation in 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s. Using panel regressions, the paper finds a negative relationship between legal central bank independence (CBI) and inflation. This result holds for three alternative measures of CBI,...

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I processi cumulativi nella crisi del debito degli anni 80: una lettura dai casi di Argentina, Brasile e Messico Cumulative processes in the 1980s debt crisis: an analysis from Arg...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyses the 1980s Latin American debt crisis in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and, in particular, the influence of cumulative processes at work in its early and final stages. The paper is organised in three sections. The first examines the crisis<92> features in the three countries, and...</92>

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